Gold Winner Black Market Boutique Silver Winner Kept Gifts & Housewares Bronze Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. Long-time manager turned co-owner Lauren Parsons has worked for Black Market Boutique since 2002. Parsons, along with colleague Wiebke Kungl, has been in the process of taking over ownership for the last five years. In that time, it’s […]
Kept Gifts & Housewares
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Best Home Decor Store
Gold Winner Kept Gifts & Housewares Silver Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. Bronze Winner Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique & Letterpress Studio Dartmouth’s Kept has a little bit of everything, but its housewares really enamoured BOH voters this year. “In the face of online shopping and big-box retail, we strive to uphold the forgotten art of […]
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Best Home Decor Store
Gold Winner Kept Silver Winner Black Market Boutique Bronze Winner The Independent Mercantile Co. Kept is all about “pride of place,” says owner Charlotte Jewer. Both she and her husband have lived in Ontario temporarily and missed the seaside deeply while away. When they moved back to Halifax, the two considered the question “How can […]
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Best Indie Gift Shop
Gold Winner Black Market Boutique Silver Winner Made in the Maritimes Artisan Boutique, Bedford Bronze Winner Kept Gifts & Housewares The Black Market Boutique’s colourful exterior (and interior) is as recognizable to the average Haligonian as Pizza Corner nearby. Black Market is cozy and welcoming the moment you step inside, with the scent of unlit […]
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Give it away now: 10 gift ideas for everyone on your list
For the co-worker who’s always stealing your favourite mug JAW Pottery mug, $38 The Trainyard General Store, 53 Portland Street Sattva Boutique, 2453 Agricola Street For the homesick ex-pat JAMPY baltic birch ornament, $12.50 ($45 for set of 5 designs) jampy.co For the analog lover Keephouse Calendar Tea Towel, $28 Made in the Maritimes, 5527 […]
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SHOP THIS: Hand Drawn Halifax Colouring Book
Emma FitzGerald was midway through her now-popular book Hand Drawn Halifax when she had the idea to make a colouring book version, inviting readers and creative types the opportunity to put their own stamp on her line drawings. “Three years ago in Toronto, I bought a Van Gogh colouring book,” says FitzGerald. “As a kid […]
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SHOP THIS: Hand Drawn Halifax Colouring Book
Emma FitzGerald was midway through her now-popular book Hand Drawn Halifax when she had the idea to make a colouring book version, inviting readers and creative types the opportunity to put their own stamp on her line drawings. “Three years ago in Toronto, I bought a Van Gogh colouring book,” says FitzGerald. “As a kid […]
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SHOP THIS: Halifax-made valentines
Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique & Letterpress Studio 1658 Market Street, inkwellboutique.ca “The Be Mine card [designed and printed by Inkwell Press] struck a chord with me. Love and friendship are as much a theme of music as they are Valentine’s Day. Despite its impossible finger positions, this card is perfect for the musician in your […]
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ShopTalk visits Dartmouth
The City of Lakes’ personality sparkles brighter than its many swimming spots do, with creative new ventures and flavours popping up on the regular. Downtown Dartmouth alone has seen 15 new businesses in the past 20 months, and the communities within the community— whether Cole Harbour, Burnside, Woodside or Portland HIlls—are snowballing, too. It’s more […]
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Drifter Goods’ leather bomb
Your hard earned cash should be treated with respect—that stuff doesn’t grow on trees, you know. Drifter Goods, a locally-made line of leather goods, is all about handling important things with care, making coin pouches, card holders, passport holders, coffee sleeves by hand, from very beautiful leather. Josiah Stevens is the guy behind the handy […]
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Pillow talk with Girliture
Tanya Owen really cares about where you lay your head after a long day. She’s the artist behind Girliture, her furniture painting business that started focussing in on pillows this fall. “I’m not even sure what made me decide to try it, but I had been stenciling some furniture and thought I’d try one of […]